My day for buying tickets for the colosseum is coming up Monday and/or Tuesday Morning.
I am going to do trial run tomorrow morning.
From what I am reading they go on sale 8:30am Rome time, so 2:30 EST if I am doing my math correctly... UGH
There are 4 in our party so really don't want to pay $600-900 on a tour if I can avoid it.
Any tips or tricks y'all have would be sincerely appreciated!!
Posted by
South Carolina
120 posts
A guided tour does not have to cost that much if that is the only limitation. I had 5 in my group on 3/18/25, and our guided tour of the Colosseum, forum, and Palatine Hill cost me a little over $50 per person on Get Your Guide.
Posted by
Atlanta, GA area (USA)
293 posts
We were in Rome in January and I wasn’t able to stay up all night on the Colosseum website so we had to buy a tour. I found an audio guide tour from CIS tours on Get Your Guide that was about 60-something per person. It was really just the tickets and an audio guide app that we didn’t want, but it gave us the same experience as with regular tickets and I wasn’t sick from lack of sleep! The CIS rep was right where they told us to meet him and had printed paper vouchers for the tickets, so we could just take them and cross the street and get in the security line to go in.
Good luck with your trip!
Posted by
Baltimore
5 posts
You don't need to get up in the middle of the night! They are released every 15 minutes or 30 minutes seemingly. So I started looking at 6am and was able to get tickets for noon. There are a bunch of helpful guides on Reddit! Keep refreshing -- but not so often that you get locked out! The underground tickets are the hardest to get. I managed to get attic tickets on my second day of trying.